Welcome to another week of learning Year 2. I hope that you all had a great weekend at home and are ready for the new week.
Here are Monday’s home learning challenges:
Phonics
Access the RWI sessions below. All the children would benefit from accessing the set 3 sounds lesson, however some might also benefit from the other sessions.
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30 am
Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00 am
Set 3 Speed Sounds at 10.30 am
If you do however, feel that these sessions are not really benefiting your child, please feel free to access reading materials for a little longer instead.
Reading
Continue reading and quizzing on books using the Accelerated Reading and Epic Reading resources. Help can be found in the ‘How to help your child’ section of my page if you need it.
It also isn’t too late to sign up for the Epic Reading resource. If you would like access to a huge range of books, some with quizzes, please send an email to l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. This will enable me to send you an invite to create an account.
English
Roald Dahl may already be one of your favourite authors, but did you know he was very skilled at writing poetry too? The extracts used this week are from Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, both of which are told completely in rhyme. Dahl did, however, also use poetry within some of his stories, e.g. when the Oompa Loompas sing about each of the children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the window cleaners in The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me.
Day 1 - The Porcupine
Use the link below to listen to and enjoy ‘The Porcupine’ from Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl.
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-audio/revolting-rhymes-dirty-beasts
Watch this short clip to find out more about porcupines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSadv0qmZ6s
Discuss what it must have felt like for the child in the poem! Listen to the poem again, stopping to write down favourite words and phrases. You may choose to print off a copy of the poem here:
https://100.best-poems.net/porcupine.html
Read together and highlight the key words and phrases.
Design and create a poster warning children about the danger of porcupines! Include some warning sentences starting with ‘if’, e.g. If you don’t look carefully, you could sit on one by mistake! If you sit on a porcupine, its spikes will stick in you!
Pinch some of your favourite words or phrases from the poem, e.g. It will feel as if a hundred red hot bits of wire are puncturing your skin! Be sure you look before you sit! You may also choose to use some key facts from the information clip, e.g. The spikes are called quills and can come out very easily. Ouch!
Include a diagram in your poster, labelling the key parts, particularly those dangerous quills! Check your punctuation and spelling.
SumDog
Today I have set you a ‘grammar skills’ task.
Oxford Owl Spelling
Oxford Owl have allowed access to some superb spelling resources linked to the spelling scheme we follow in school. It would be brilliant for your child to access a different spelling rule a day. However, I will be unable to set certain spelling rules for each day as many of the tasks have the same name and I am unable to set links to specific rules. Therefore, It would be great to access the website everyday and choose one spelling focus for that day. You should then know which ones you have completed and which ones need doing. The tasks are only short and shouldn’t take too long. To access the resources:
Go to www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Click ‘My Class Login’ at the top of the page and enter the username and password:
Username: ourladyyear2
Password: year2
From there, click on the ‘Read Write Inc. Spelling’ tab. (There are MORE reading books on this resource too, many that should have quizzes on Accelerated Reader! … So many opportunities to read!!)
If you then select Year 2 in the ‘Year Groups’ drop down menu, the spelling rules for Year 2 will appear. There you can choose which rule to work through each day.
If you have any issues, please do not hesitate to ask.
Maths
Maths is a little different this week because we are one week ahead on the resources due to having only one week off at Easter.
Therefore, I thought it would be good to give the children a choice of two skills to revisit. The first link will be to revisit a place value skill. The second link is to revisit a money skill. Your child can choose which area they feel they need more practice in, or can watch both videos if they wish.
Find one more and one less - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkhsf4j
OR
Introduction to money and the 1p coin -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZfyW9FF2eA&list=PLQqF8sn28L9yTV9WxpHw-9BbqRe_f49fr&index=7&t=0s
SumDog
x2 multiplication challenge
Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!
Have a super day of learning Year 2!
Miss Woodend